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Old English Dictionary Entry

Un-módig

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1 un-módig

adj. I. in a depreciatory sense, without courage, fainthearted, pusillanimous :-- On óðre wísan sint tó manianne ða módgan, on óðre ða unmódgan and ða unðrístan (pusillanimes) ... ða unmódgan and ða ungedyrstigan wénað ðæt ðæt suíðe forsewenlíc sié ðætte hié dóð, and forðon weorðaþ oft ormóde, Past. 32; Swt. 209, 1-12. II. in a good sense, not proud, diffident, humble :-- Geclǽnsa mé ða hwíle ðe is on ðisse worulde sí, and gedó mé unmódigne, Shrn. 171, 1. un-modig
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ᚢᚾ-ᛗᚩᛞᛁᚷ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Works & Authors

Past.
Alfred's Pastoral Care (Gregory's Cura Pastoralis)
Shrn.
Shrine (collection of OE texts)
Swt.
Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Reader
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